Classic Poem

What can one pillar onely be thy due,
The Colledge pillar, and truths pillar too?
Had we Seth's pillar whose sight Joseph feigns,
Perusing thine, 'twould scarce requite our pains.
Non datur ultra Hercules pillars show,
Beyond a Hercules labours thou dost go.
Seav'n headed Hydra , error multiply'd
Thou need'st no Club, thy knife can soon divide:
Augean filths no work when vy'd with thee,
Do'st cleanse the Jakes of all antiquitie,
All truths before thine, did like heat-drops fall.
Vanish'd so soon, scarce seen, or known at all.
Thou set'st up sail, swim'st through the purple flood,
Which blush'd before, 'cause never understood.
Thou circlest through our Microcosm , and we
Learn more then th' world, our selvs, new worlds by thee.
Knowledge was eaten through with ages rust,
And the Serpent now would cheat us with his dust;
Most do an apple phancy, knowledge fruit;
Say but an Harvey , we assent unto't.
Yet here we knowledge gain without a death;
Death onely opens us a way to breath;
Enabled by the cunning of his knife,
He Cherubin like doth guard the tree of life.
Above the milky way in glory shine,
Lend humane nature lustre more divine;
Those lesser stars, a Peckquet, Bartholine
Lose all their glory, when by't vy'd with thine;
They babes in Physick by thyr milk may please,
Thou open'st veins for cure of truths disease.
Art natures midwife, stripst her Callow brood,
And new attirest to inrich our blood.
What need we pillars unto Harvey raise,
Who rears himself a Pyramid of praise?
To issue wanting Absaloms Pillars rear;
Each generation will give him an heir.
While drops of blood can channel in a vein,
Truth's bloody victory will him trophies gain.